Jeff Pash, the NFL's executive vice president of labor said,
"There
is a very substantial incentive for both sides to get an
agreement.... There is a lot of risk for us [and] a lot of risk
for the players."

But just
last month, when the NFLPA tried to trot out their own
numbers of impending financial damage, the NFL office scoffed,
calling it an "economic fairytale."

So last month economic losses weren't an issue and now it's a
"substantial incentive"?

Look, the PR pissing match is only going to intensify as the we
near the March 3 deadline and the inevitable work stoppage. We
already sick of it.

Everyone knows there's a lot of money at stake. But no
one cares how much it is, because almost all of it is NOT ours,
the fans. We just want football. Stop debating about who is being
coy and who is wasting who's time and solve it!

You can wait until after the Super Bowl. We understand you're
focused on that. But once that's over, GET TO THE TABLE. Stop
wasting time and stop accusing the other side of using unfair
tactics, just because you haven't had a chance to deploy them
yourself yet. After February 6, you have nothing else to do but
this. So get it done.

And stop throwing meaningless numbers around that are only meant
to scare people. The only thing we're scared of is that you're so
concerned about winning the PR battle, we're all going to lose
the war.